“Jobs” is a baffling motion picture, asking the audience to spent two
hours with a narcissistic creep who stomped on those who helped to build
an empire, flushed his family down the toilet, and treated underlings
cruelly. Of course, it was all in the quest for perfection according to
the screenplay by Matt Whiteley, giving Steve Jobs a free pass to
sainthood, where his tech world innovation, not his dubious character,
preserves his legacy at Apple Inc. Not that “Jobs” has any interest in
behavioral complexity to challenge the exalted subject, instead behaving
like a confused television movie that doesn’t exactly know how to
transform extended examples of unbridled arrogance into a hard-edged
celebration of dogged ambition.
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